I can think of some obvious examples to start with, but my subtle but insidious nominee is Fable III. Fittingly for a pretentious grifter like Molyneux, the game requires you to raise a specific amount of gold or your kingdom is destroyed and you get a bad ending. The goalposts are moved by the game if you raise money in ways it doesn't approve of, and it is simply impossible to reach the fundraising goal in any way that isn't at least Enlightened Centrist levels of evil, the kind that lanyard-wearing neoliberals giggle about. That's right, you need to be at least this evil or your kingdom is destroyed. So deep and really makes you think about the hard decisions that are made by the ruling class, doesn't it? :zizek:

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I'm surprised no one here has mentioned Assassin's Creed yet. All conflict in history stems from two competing ideological sects of callous murderers who wanton manipulate populations into doing their bidding and for some reason one side in this conflict is supposed to be the moral superior of the other. Also some of the supplemental material is batshit and basically just a way for the devs to denote certain historical figures as good or bad depending on what organization they belonged to. All other conflicts are secondary to the overarching philosophical differences of two sects competing for magical thingies.

    At the same time those games have probably the most sympathetic portrayal of Marx in a western piece of fiction, so there's that.

      • Spiderman [any]
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        3 years ago

        Tbf I think he was criticizing propaganda of the deed anarchists, it’s a big factor in the split of the first internationale.

          • Spiderman [any]
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            3 years ago

            …no, banishing anarchists from the first internationale didn’t make him a lib

            • Helmic [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Intensely lib, in a manner that has not been successfully conveyed until Ubisoft got their hands on him.

              • Spiderman [any]
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                3 years ago

                You guys really haven’t read a lot of Marx’s correspondences, have you?

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        that's the only Ass Creed game I like only because I like games about going to different tropical islands with sailboats

      • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Black Flag was a great game with writing that genuinely made me incredibly emotional. Its been a while since I've finished it, and I wasn't as critical with my thinking, but out of every Assasin's Creed game I've played its the only one where I've ever been invested in the main character.

      • Vncredleader
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        3 years ago

        Don't remind me of that line dude, you're gonna make me cry again

    • Vncredleader
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      3 years ago

      Don't get me started on Unity. Legit love the gameplay, but it is the most disgustingly liberal thing imaginable. Just an overtly anti-revolution and openly pro-monarchist game